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North Creek, Pennsylvania
8.1 mapped river miles, draining 19 square miles, in the Sinnemahoning Creek basin watershed. No gauge stands in it; the nearest is 12.9 miles away, and what this page knows about its temperature is PA DEP's classification of the water itself.
50°F and colder is cold, through cold-transitional and cool, to warm above 70°F — the same four bands, breaking at 58, 64 and 70°F, that the app paints. Grey is water nobody has measured.
The nearest live reading
The nearest gauge is 15.5 miles away, at Clarion River — not a reading of this water, but of what the region is doing today. A closer gauge has stopped reporting — its last water temperature was 144 days ago, on 7 May 2026, so no number here comes from it.
Thermal classification
PA DEP's classification of this water, reach by reach. A class, not a temperature — no July mean, because none was measured here.
| Reach | Typed miles | Band | PA DEP type |
|---|---|---|---|
| RM 8.1–0.0 | 8.8 | cold | — |
PA DEP has classified 8.8 of the 8.9 miles NHD carries for this stream — 99% of it. Every typed reach carries the same class, cold. The untyped reaches are not warm water — they are water PA DEP's inventory does not reach, and the mile ranges above span only the reaches it does.
PA DEP classification
PA DEP classifies this water as Cold Water Fishes. The management tier on those reaches is Cold Water Fishes. This is a designation of the fishery, not the season and creel rules — those change yearly and live with the agency.
Public land on the river
2 units of public or open-access land touch this river, 188,913 acres in total. Acreage is the whole unit, not the part beside the water.
| Unit | Owner | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| Elk State Forest | another state agency | 177,260 |
| State Game Land 030 | another state agency | 11,654 |
Species
PA DEP designates this as trout water — Cold Water Fishes — without naming the species. No fish survey or stocking record for this water is in the files this site reads.
Tributaries and watershed
6 named streams meet this one. Confluence miles are above the mouth; the longest twelve are listed.
- Waldy Run 4.8 mi · RM 3.7
- Pepper Run 2.6 mi · RM 4.7
- Barr Run 2.4 mi · RM 1.4
- Moon Run 2.0 mi · RM 2.6
- Lewis Run 1.9 mi · RM 0.6
- Twenty Seven Branch 0.5 mi · RM 7.2
North Creek sits in HUC 8 02050202, the Sinnemahoning Creek basin, and drains 19 square miles, Strahler order 4 at the mouth. 28 NHD reaches carry the name for 8.9 miles in total — more than the 8.1 miles of drawn mainstem, because NHD counts side channels and braids as their own reaches.